Quite a bit happened in the three years between Bryan Adams’ chart-topping Reckless and its follow-up, Into the Fire. A global star after four albums,
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Van Halen might have matured past their days of knock-down, drag-out fights by 2015, but that didn’t stop one of their final televised performances from
Neil Peart crafted many of prog rock’s beastliest drum parts: the intricate ride cymbal groove on “Tom Sawyer,” the shifting 7/8 dynamics of “La Villa
When Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney played their first concert on March 20, 2002, they looked out on an audience that had, as Auerbach’s dad described
“Do you wanna get rocked?“ That’s the surprising question that kicks off Def Leppard’s 1992 album Adrenalize. It’s surprising because the band’s belabored, five-year gap since Hysteria (which was
The Beat’s most enduring song came not from a place of inspiration, but immaturity. Dave Wakeling, the group’s singer and guitarist, wrote “Save It for Later” before
Almost every band that achieves superstardom has a definable turning point in its career, where it goes from being just another band to a phenomenon. For Kings of
So much of the immediate praise surrounding the Rolling Stones’ hodge-podge Tattoo You album was colored by the era. Same with “Hang Fire.” The band
By early 1972, ZZ Top had already become a great live band. With their second album, Rio Grande Mud, they began to learn how to
The pre-bearded ZZ Top’s second album, Rio Grande Mud, arrived on April 4, 1972, at the beginning of their climb to global success. Already, they